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BUILD A CAREER FOCUSED GIVE YOUR CAREER A
ON MAKING LIVES BETTER. HEAD START.
Health and wellness offers multiple career The on-the-job experience provided
paths in the U.S. and abroad. You might by internships is required in some
work with young children, teenagers, adults programs and encouraged in most others.
or senior citizens — or you may select a Increasingly, graduate and professional
career that involves working with people schools in health areas prefer them too.
throughout their lives. Oregon State offers preceptorships in
Traditional health professions such as public health and pre-medicine programs,
medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy where you spend time observing patient
and veterinary medicine all offer rewarding care, community health, office procedures
careers, but there are also growing and other aspects of your preceptor’s work.
opportunities in public health, athletics, Your professors, department and college,
nutrition and the assisted-living industry. as well as the Oregon State Career
Careers in these areas require further Development Center, can help you apply
education in graduate, professional or for an internship.
medical school.